JFK's Grandson Launches Congress Bid

“250 years after America was founded, and our country is at a turning point,” Schlossberg began. “It’s a crisis at every level: a cost-of-living crisis sponsored by the big, beautiful bill, historic cuts to social programs working families rely on, healthcare, education, and child care. It’s a corruption crisis. The president has made almost a billion dollars this year. He’s picking winners and losers from inside the Oval Office. It’s cronyism, not capitalism.”

“It’s a constitutional crisis with one dangerous man in control of all three branches of government,” Schlossberg also said in the video. “He’s stripping citizens of their civil rights and silencing his critics. The worst part is: it doesn’t have to be this way. And it wasn’t always.”

“My name is Jack Schlossberg, and I’m running for Congress to represent my home, New York’s 12th congressional district, where I was born and raised, where I took the bus to school every single day from one side of the district to the other,” he said. “This is the best part of the greatest city on Earth. We have the best hospitals and schools, restaurants and museums. This is the financial and media capital of the world.”

“This district should have a representative who can harness the creativity, energy, and drive of this district and translate that into political power in Washington,” Schlossberg said. “I’m not running because I have all the answers to our problems. I’m running because the people of New York 12 do. I want to listen to your struggles, hear your stories, amplify your voice, go to Washington, and execute on your behalf.”

“There is nowhere I’d rather be than in the arena fighting for my hometown,” Schlossberg said. “Over the next eight months, during the course of this campaign, I hope to meet as many of you as I can. If you see me on the street, please say hello. If I knock on your door, I hope we can have a conversation. Because politics should be personal.”